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Work:
The prisoners had to work hard and out-doors even in January. Their current job is to build a wall, but the temperature is affecting the speed at which it is compeleted and the is mortar starting to freeze(78). The "helper" jobs that bring the prisoners extra food could also be considered work (bringing in wood, and clearing the tables). Work is started and stopped usually by a whistle (73). Mortar is to be mixed and moved from one place to another without much of a break at all. The prisoners also have to chip ice off their work as it builds (75). Other than hard labor in the cold, there are other jobs if a prisoner bribes the right people for long enough, such as what happened with Tsezar. He has an office job inside a heated building(66).
Authority:
All levels of authority view the prisoners in relatively the same way. The guards, the officers, and the other persons watching over the prisoners have a general opinion that they are of a much lower class and should neither be trusted nor bothered with. There was a guard posted at the canteen doors so that a prisoner could not smuggle out food (58). The duty-squad leaders disliked the prisoners, while taking double servings of the food to "test". When they handed out the bowls, the prisoners knew that "if you opened your mouth [about the amount of oatmeal, all you got] was a bunch of swearwords" (59). Those of higher positions than the outdoor laboring prisoners got office jobs such as the one Tsezar, though still a prisoner, held. Those in offices including the overseers and the other authority figures in the camp had heated rooms that were like "Turkish bath[s]" (66). Tsezar who had been situated around officals had started to take on their opinion of the prisoners and showed this by reguarding Ivan as a servent and almost entirely ignored him (67). The squad leaders are the ones who really keep the prisoners in line. It is said that "A guard can't get people to budge even in working hours, but a squad leader can tell his men to get on with the job even during the break ,and they'll do it. Because he's the one who feeds them" (73).
Survival:
A person in the prison could survive starvation, or any disablement caused by the lack of food, in a few ways. They could be a "helper" to the cook carrying the sack of grits, water, or firewood for the stove. They could also collect the dirty bowls from the tables after the other prisoners were finished eating. Both of these things gave the person an extra helping of food (58). If you did not get a job while gave you a double helping, you got a lesser helping than you should techincally get because the double serving of the helper was taken out of the group allowence of food (59). Another way to survive in reguards to food was to confuse the cook into getting extra bowls of food for your group (61). Survival was mainly about not freezing in the cold temperatures, getting enough to eat, and avoiding getting punished for working slow or poorly. One of mottos in the book is to "waste not, want not" for surviving (68).
Work:
The prisoners had to work hard and out-doors even in January. Their current job is to build a wall, but the temperature is affecting the speed at which it is compeleted and the is mortar starting to freeze(78). The "helper" jobs that bring the prisoners extra food could also be considered work (bringing in wood, and clearing the tables). Work is started and stopped usually by a whistle (73). Mortar is to be mixed and moved from one place to another without much of a break at all. The prisoners also have to chip ice off their work as it builds (75). Other than hard labor in the cold, there are other jobs if a prisoner bribes the right people for long enough, such as what happened with Tsezar. He has an office job inside a heated building(66).
Authority:
All levels of authority view the prisoners in relatively the same way. The guards, the officers, and the other persons watching over the prisoners have a general opinion that they are of a much lower class and should neither be trusted nor bothered with. There was a guard posted at the canteen doors so that a prisoner could not smuggle out food (58). The duty-squad leaders disliked the prisoners, while taking double servings of the food to "test". When they handed out the bowls, the prisoners knew that "if you opened your mouth [about the amount of oatmeal, all you got] was a bunch of swearwords" (59). Those of higher positions than the outdoor laboring prisoners got office jobs such as the one Tsezar, though still a prisoner, held. Those in offices including the overseers and the other authority figures in the camp had heated rooms that were like "Turkish bath[s]" (66). Tsezar who had been situated around officals had started to take on their opinion of the prisoners and showed this by reguarding Ivan as a servent and almost entirely ignored him (67). The squad leaders are the ones who really keep the prisoners in line. It is said that "A guard can't get people to budge even in working hours, but a squad leader can tell his men to get on with the job even during the break ,and they'll do it. Because he's the one who feeds them" (73).
Survival:
A person in the prison could survive starvation, or any disablement caused by the lack of food, in a few ways. They could be a "helper" to the cook carrying the sack of grits, water, or firewood for the stove. They could also collect the dirty bowls from the tables after the other prisoners were finished eating. Both of these things gave the person an extra helping of food (58). If you did not get a job while gave you a double helping, you got a lesser helping than you should techincally get because the double serving of the helper was taken out of the group allowence of food (59). Another way to survive in reguards to food was to confuse the cook into getting extra bowls of food for your group (61). Survival was mainly about not freezing in the cold temperatures, getting enough to eat, and avoiding getting punished for working slow or poorly. One of mottos in the book is to "waste not, want not" for surviving (68).